Library Database Summaries

Research Databases

Academic Search Complete

This most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, has more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications.

Coverage: 1975-

AHFS Consumer Medication Information

The AHFS Consumer Medication Information database is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information. It includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.

Updated monthly.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection

The collection contains hundreds of important dramatic works in streaming audio form. The plays - which include some of the most dramatic works of the 19th-21st centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world.

American Chemical Society Journals

ACS Journals provides abstracts and full text for journal articles from the American Chemical Society. This is a comprehensive collection of the most cited peer-reviewed journals in the chemical and related sciences.

Caribbean Search

A multidisciplinary database that provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles pertinent to the countries and people of the Caribbean region. The collection contains over 730 Caribbean focused scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports and reference books making this the largest collection of full text content available to academic, school and public libraries in the region. This database is updated weekly on EBSCOhost.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text

A robust authoritative collection of full text articles for many of the most used journals related to the field of nursing & allied health. The full text coverage for more than 770 journals, legal cases, clinical innovations and trials, etc.

Coverage: 1937- present

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day dating back to 1991. The full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research

Earth and Environmental Science

Earth and Environmental Science is an international multidisciplinary database providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

EBSCO eBook Collection is a library of electronic books (e-books) on many academic subjects. The collection includes titles purchased by UVI plus thousands of public-domain e-books. Users can preview an e-book online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable. Readers may check out e-books for seven (7) days.

Education Source

Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The collection includes full-text for education journals, and encompasses an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks and more. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

ERIC (EBSCOHost)

ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. It contains abstracts of documents and journal articles on educational research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, etc.

Coverage: 1966- present

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750

This is a bibliographic database of European works that relate to the Americas. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

Grant Forward Database

Grant Forward database contains information on over 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. It also contains fellowships and scholarships for graduate students.

Database updated daily and compiled weekly.

GreenFILE

A database of well-researched information from scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its content includes material on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

JSTOR (Electronic Journal Collection)

JSTOR is not a current issues database. It provides electronic, full text access to the back files of approximately 670 scholarly periodicals in a variety of disciplines, notably: Arts & Sciences; Business; Ecology & Botany; Mathematics & Statistics. Coverage begins with the first issue of the journal, and typically there is a gap from 1 to 5 years between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations.

LexisNexis Academic

LexisNexis Academic is a full text database for online news, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources in a single location. News updated daily, news wires several times a day.

Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource Center is the most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource. It's materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skill.

News (AP, UPI, etc.)

Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press on a continuous basis. This collection includes AP Top News, WorldStream, Financial News, AP Online, U.S. Politics & Government and 50 State Reports. End users can immediately access the full text of the NewsMonitor-delivered web content, by following the link in the record. The index to the full text content in AP News is available for 30-days.

Newspaper Source Plus

Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, including Virgin Islands Daily News, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts

Virtual Reference Library

Web News

EBSCO's News Harvester provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe. These feeds are monitored by EBSCO and relevant results are provided when users enter searches in EBSCOhost. This collection includes over 5,000 feeds across a range of business and general news topics.

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